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This position will focus on the Medical Stabilization of Eating Disorders Service at CHOC at Mission Hospital. This setting is a "hospital in a hospital" which is a pediatric inpatient medical setting. In this position, the fellow will work closely with the attending psychologists, hospitalists, dietitians and child life specialists who provide services to the child and family during their stay. Additional providers include psychiatry and adolescent medicine specialists. The fellow will have the opportunity for an immersive training experience in treating various eating disorders (e.g., Anorexia Nervosa, ARFID, Bulimia) using a Family-based Treatment (FBT) approach. Fellows will be involved adapting FBT principles into a busy inpatient medical stabilization setting to empower parents and equip them with the education necessary to restore their child back to health. Fellows may be involved in parent and patient psychoeducation, individual work with patients and facilitating group meals and group therapy. Research opportunities are also available and highly encouraged.
Fellows will also participate in non-eating disorder psychological consultation requested in this location. Common consults include ruling out psychosomatic causes of medical symptoms, assessing depression and anxiety and providing referrals and/or treatment, teaching children and families non-pharmacologic pain control strategies, neurologic complications, acute stress reactions, and adjusting to a new medical diagnosis.
Fellows may have the opportunity to spend one day a week with our integrated primary care program if interested. In addition to the experiences working with the medical teams described above, the fellow will also participate in a range of other pediatric psychology experiences described below in the section, "Activities Common to All Tracks."
Salary and Benefits
Fellows: $69,867/year
Medical and Dental Insurance (after first full month of employment)
Paid time off (total of 21 days) for educational/vacation/sick leave (11-13 days) and departmental holidays (8-10 days)
Paid sick leave (total of 3 days per fiscal year)
An additional 3 days of educational leave (for conferences or licensure classes). Each fellow is assigned a desktop or laptop computer.
Postdoctoral Fellows receive free parking at CHOC
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Katelyn Anderson PhD
Pediatric Psychologist
CHOC Children's Hospital
Orange CA
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